Q 01/05

The original Cincinnati club was expelled from the National League in 1880 for selling beer and what else?

A) Paying players too much

B) Playing on Sundays

C) Using a livelier ball

D) Admitting women free

Answer · why

B) Playing on Sundays

Playing on Sundays and selling beer drew the city's large German population, and neither broke a league rule yet; the club refused to sign a pledge ba...

Q 02/05

The modern Reds were a charter member of which league in 1882, winning its first pennant?

A) Union Association

B) National League

C) American Association

D) Players' League

Answer · why

C) American Association

American Association clubs sold beer and charged 25 cents, half the older league's price, so rivals sneered at it as the Beer and Whiskey League.

Q 03/05

The Reds' first World Series title, in 1919, came against which team amid a scandal?

A) Philadelphia Athletics

B) Boston Red Sox

C) New York Yankees

D) Chicago White Sox

Answer · why

D) Chicago White Sox

Chicago White Sox players took gamblers' money to lose; eight were acquitted in court in August 1921, and the new commissioner banned them for life th...

Q 04/05

Which maker of radios and refrigerators bought the struggling Reds in 1934?

A) Bill DeWitt

B) Powel Crosley Jr.

C) Carl Lindner

D) Larry MacPhail

Answer · why

B) Powel Crosley Jr.

Powel Crosley Jr. bought the club in February 1934 and assured fans it would stay in Cincinnati; two months later the ballpark was renamed in his hono...

Q 05/05

Crosley Field hosted the first what in Major League history, in 1935?

A) Sunday doubleheader

B) Televised game

C) Night game

D) Ladies' Day

Answer · why

C) Night game

Night game history began when President Roosevelt pressed a button in the White House that switched on the lights in Cincinnati, and the Reds beat the...